1f6d827e48
Self-found during the rebase onto next, not from the review.
The base range added `describe('#2624 .gsd-source marker is rewritten before
staging reads it')`, which calls the real `install(true, 'claude')` IN-PROCESS
and sandboxes HOME/USERPROFILE/GSD_EXPLICIT_CONFIG_DIR — but not
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR. That is exactly the Blocker-1 shape this PR exists to close,
reintroduced in new code written after the round-1 review.
Measured on the rebased tree, same file, same commit:
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR unset -> 50/50 pass
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR set -> 47/50, and a COMPLETE global install lands in it
(gsd-core/, agents/, skills/, hooks/, scripts/,
gsd-file-manifest.json, gsd-install-state.json,
.gsd-source, .gsd-profile)
The three failures are the honest symptom rather than the problem: the install
goes to the ambient config dir, so the assertions look for a marker under
tmpRoot that was never written there.
With scrubConfigLocationEnv() wired into the block's beforeEach/afterEach —
the same pattern the sibling block at :753 already uses — the file is 50/50
under BOTH conditions and leaks zero entries.
Worth stating plainly: CI cannot catch this class, since CI never has these
vars set. It surfaced here only because the rebase brought the base's new tests
under an ambient CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, which is the condition #2665's own
acceptance criterion runs under.
GSD Core
Git. Ship. Done.
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A light-weight meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system for Claude Code, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Kilo, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and more.
What is GSD Core
GSD Core is a context-engineering and spec-driven development framework that drives AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Copilot, Cursor, and more) through a disciplined phase loop. It solves context rot — the quality degradation that accumulates as an AI fills its context window — by running all heavy research, planning, and execution work in fresh-context subagents while keeping your main session lean.
How it works
Each milestone repeats the same five-step loop, one phase at a time:
- Discuss — capture implementation decisions before anything is planned
- Plan — research, decompose, and verify the plan fits a fresh context window
- Execute — run plans in parallel waves; each executor starts with a clean 200k-token context
- Verify — walk through what was built; diagnose and fix before declaring done
- Ship — create the PR, archive the phase, repeat for the next one
Quickstart
npx @opengsd/gsd-core@latest
The installer prompts for your runtime (Claude Code, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Kilo, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and more) and whether to install globally or locally. The installer is required for cross-runtime compatibility — do not copy files from agents/ or commands/ directly.
On another runtime or without Node.js? See Install on your runtime.
Once installed, start a new project or onboard an existing repo:
/gsd-new-project # greenfield project
/gsd-onboard # existing codebase
New here? Follow Your first project for a guided walkthrough from install to first shipped phase, or Onboarding an existing codebase for brownfield setup.
Documentation
What's new in 1.7.0 → docs/whats-new-1.7.0.md
Tutorials — learning by doing:
How-to guides — task-focused recipes:
Reference — authoritative facts:
Explanation — concepts and design decisions:
Full index: docs/README.md. Other languages: 日本語 · 한국어 · Português · 简体中文.
Why it works
Most AI-coding setups fail at scale because context bloat silently degrades output quality, there is no shared memory between sessions, and nothing verifies that code actually works. GSD Core solves all three: heavy work runs in fresh subagents, structured artifacts like STATE.md and CONTEXT.md survive session boundaries, and the verify step walks through what was built and generates fix plans before a phase is declared done. See docs/explanation/context-engineering.md for the full reasoning.
Troubleshooting? See docs/how-to/recover-and-troubleshoot.md.
Community
| Project | Platform |
|---|---|
| gsd-opencode | Original OpenCode port |
| Discord | Community support |
Star History
License
MIT License. See LICENSE for details.
Claude Code is powerful. GSD Core makes it reliable.